I am using an older authorship plugin, but I tend to favour Automattic's versions (Jetpack's contact forms to CF7, etc). I was thinking about disabling the old plugin, but I have two questions: 1. there is no google+ author link in the page source (as opposed to the old plugin). how are the author's parameters passed to google? 2. I'm using a child theme (with almost zero deviation from twenty twelve, just different title fonts) but I cannot see the author box, or any of the extra google+ options (with or without the old plugin). any suggestions? Thanks